| More than 200 people are missing in California's deadliest and most destructive blaze on record, one of two fires raging in the state which have killed at least 31 people and forced more than a quarter of a million evacuations. | | | |
Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott, whose lead has narrowed in the state’s Senate race, filed more lawsuits against local election officials on Sunday, asking a judge to order police to impound voting machines and ballots when they are not in use. | |
When Democrats take control of the House they plan to investigate the Trump administration’s attempt to block AT&T from acquiring Time Warner, and whether officials sought to punish Amazon.com by prodding the U.S. Post Office to hike shipping prices for the world’s largest e-commerce company, a senior Democrat and a congressional aide said on Sunday. | |
Commentary: The political divides revealed by the U.S. midterm elections – including a widening urban-rural split and polarized views on immigration – are growing in many European countries, too, writes columnist John Lloyd. “The common element in all of these issues, in all Western countries, is a revolt, greater or lesser in extent, against rapid change, against liberal elites and against a loss of identity – white, in the main, but also of settled communities of past waves of immigrants. Populists, right to signal these concerns, are wrong to claim that answers are simple.” | |
| Remembering Armistice Day |
French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the millions of soldiers killed in World War One on Sunday, using an emotional ceremony in Paris attended by scores of world leaders to warn against nationalism a century on from the conflict. Trump, Putin, Merkel and dozens of monarchs, princes, presidents and prime ministers joined Macron to mark the moment the guns fell silent across Europe 100 years earlier. | | | |
| 'Armistice Day remained a vivid memory for my grandmother': A @Reuters journalist recalls the tale of how New York celebrated the end of the Great War https://reut.rs/2DxaROj 4:18 PM - Nov 11, 2018 |
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